Hi, On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:21:56PM +0200, Chris Picton wrote: > Thomas Glanzmann wrote: >> Hello Chris, >>> Are there any problems from treating all services like this - >>> (postfix/dovecot/ftp/etc), as long as I dont try share data which is >>> specific to each machine? >> I think it is legitimate to share the configuration files on a shared >> disk if you need the shared disk for _that_ service anyway. But for >> example I would not put the OpenVPN configuration or the configuration >> file of an apache loadbalancer on a shared disk because drbd adds >> another dependency to the chain of things that can go wrong. So I keep >> the dependencies as small as possible for each distinct service. > > Yes, that makes sense. > > I was thinking in the case where the service's data files are required to > be shared anyway, then sharing the configs can't harm anything.
This is of course preferable since you can't have configs out of sync. Thanks, Dejan > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
